TY - BOOK AU - Krause,Linda TI - Sustaining cities: urban policies, practices, and perceptions T2 - New directions in international studies SN - 9780813554150 (pbk.) AV - HT166 .S9136 2013 U1 - 307.1216 SUS 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - City planning KW - Environmental aspects KW - Cities and town KW - Growth KW - Sociology, Urban N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Urban policies : market rules -- Sustainable city : crisis and opportunity in Mexico / Alfonso Iracheta -- Hostage cities : unsustainable competition for corporate investment / Linda McCarthy -- Reframing housing value / Sherry Ahrentzen -- Urban practices : connecting communities -- Notes toward a history of agrarian urbanism / Charles Waldheim -- The art of place-making / Georgia Butina Watson -- Beyond boundaries / Mo Zell -- Urban perceptions : tigers, tricksters, and other urban legends -- Chinese cities : design and disappearance / Ackbar Abbas -- From "the dead" to the dead : the disposable bodies and disposable culture of Celtic Tiger Noir / Andrew Kincaid -- Imagining and re-imagining a promised land : the gangster genre and Harlem's mythic past, present, and future / Paula J. Massood -- Notes on contributors -- Index UR - http://openisbn.com/isbn/0813554160/ ER -